Sarah Skiba stayed with her father every other weekend after her parents divorced in 1993.

Sarah Skiba, 9

The Sunday she disappeared, Feb. 7, 1999, the 9-year-old girl had climbed into her father’s moving truck and went to work with him.

Paul Carroll Skiba, 38, owned a small moving company called Tuff Movers.

That day, two of Skiba’s employees called in to say they couldn’t work. He scrambled to fill in so that the company wouldn’t lose moving jobs.

He called one of his employees into work.

Lorenzo Chivers was 36 at the time. He agreed to come in and work. With two employees ditching the job at the same time, Skiba may have decided that he needed to go himself even though he had his daughter Sarah with him.

Kirk Mitchell is a general assignment reporter at The Denver Post who focuses on criminal justice stories. He began working at the newspaper in 1998, after writing for newspapers in Mesa, Ariz., and Twin Falls, Idaho, and The Associated Press in Salt Lake City. Mitchell first started writing the Cold Case blog in Fall 2007, in part because Colorado has more than 1,400 unsolved homicides.